List of MPs elected in the 1715 British general election facts for kids
List of MPs elected in the 1715 British general election
| 3rd Parliament | (1710) |
| 4th Parliament | (1713) |
| 5th Parliament | (1715) |
| 6th Parliament | (1722) |
| 7th Parliament | (1727 ) |
This is a list of the 558 MPs or members of Parliament elected to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1715, the 5th Parliament of Great Britain and their replacements returned at subsequent by-elections, arranged by constituency.
Elections took place between 22 January 1715 and 9 March 1715.
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| Aberdeen Burghs (seat 1/1) | James Erskine – unseated on petition Replaced by John Middleton 1715 |
. Whig |
| Aberdeenshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Alexander Cumming | Tory |
| Abingdon (seat 1/1) | James Jennings | Tory |
| Aldborough (seat 1/2) | James Stanhope - sat for Cockermouth Replaced by William Monson 1715 |
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| Aldborough (seat 2/2) | William Jessop | Whig |
| Aldeburgh (seat 1/2) | Sir Henry Johnson - died Replaced by Walter Plumer 1719 |
Tory Whig |
| Aldeburgh (seat 2/2) | William Johnson - died Replaced by Samuel Lowe 1718 |
Tory . |
| Amersham (seat 1/2) | Montague Garrard Drake | Tory |
| Amersham (seat 2/2) | The Viscount Fermanagh - died Replaced by The Viscount Fermanagh 1717 |
Tory . |
| Andover (seat 1/2) | John Wallop - sat for Hampshire Replaced by James Brudenell 1715 |
. Whig |
| Andover (seat 2/2) | William Guidott | Whig |
| Anglesey (seat 1/1) | Owen Meyrick | Whig |
| Anstruther Easter Burghs (seat 1/1) | Philip Anstruther | Whig |
| Appleby (seat 1/2) | Thomas Lutwyche | Tory |
| Appleby (seat 2/2) | Sir Richard Sandford, Bt. | Whig |
| Argyllshire (seat 1/1) | Sir James Campbell | |
| Arundel (seat 1/2) | General Henry Lumley | |
| Arundel (seat 2/2) | Thomas Micklethwaite - died Replaced by Joseph Micklethwaite 1718 |
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| Ashburton (seat 1/2) | Richard Reynell | Tory |
| Ashburton (seat 2/2) | Roger Tuckfield | Whig |
| Aylesbury (seat 1/2) | Nathaniel Meade | |
| Aylesbury (seat 2/2) | John Deacle - sat for Evesham Replaced by Trevor Hill 1715 |
. Whig |
| Ayr Burghs (seat 1/1) | Charles Oliphant - died Replaced by Thomas Kennedy 1720 |
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| Ayrshire (seat 1/1) | John Montgomerie | |
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| Banbury (seat 1/1) | Sir Jonathan Cope | |
| Banffshire (seat 1/1) | Alexander Abercromby | |
| Barnstaple (seat 1/2) | John Rolle | |
| Barnstaple (seat 2/2) | Sir Arthur Chichester- died Replaced by John Basset 1718 - died Replaced by Sir Hugh Acland 1721 |
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| Bath (seat 1/2) | Samuel Trotman - died Replaced by Robert Gay 1720 |
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| Bath (seat 2/2) | John Codrington | |
| Beaumaris (seat 1/1) | Hon. Henry Bertie | |
| Bedford (seat 1/2) | William Farrer | Whig |
| Bedford (seat 2/2) | John Thurlow Brace | Whig |
| Bedfordshire (seat 1/2) | William Hillersden | Whig |
| Bedfordshire (seat 2/2) | John Harvey – unseated on petition Replaced by John Cater |
Tory |
| Bere Alston (seat 1/2) | Lawrence Carter | |
| Bere Alston (seat 2/2) | Horatio Walpole – took office Replaced by Edward Carteret 1717 - took office Replaced by Philip Cavendish 1721 - unseated on petition Replaced by St John Brodrick 1721 |
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| Berkshire (seat 1/2) | Sir John Stonhouse, Bt | |
| Berkshire (seat 2/2) | Robert Packer | |
| Berwickshire (seat 1/1) | George Baillie | |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 1/2) | Grey Neville | Whig |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed (seat 2/2) | John Barrington | |
| Beverley (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Hotham, Bt | Whig |
| Beverley (seat 2/2) | Sir Michael Warton | |
| Bewdley (seat 1/1) | Grey James Grove | Whig |
| Bishop's Castle (seat 1/2) | Richard Harnage - died Replaced by Sir Matthew Decker 1719 |
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| Bishop's Castle (seat 2/2) | Charles Mason | |
| Bletchingley (seat 1/2) | George Evelyn | |
| Bletchingley (seat 2/2) | Thomas Onslow – took office Replaced by William Clayton 1715 |
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| Bodmin (seat 1/2) | Hon. Francis Robartes - died Replaced by Earl of Burford 1718 |
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| Bodmin (seat 2/2) | John Legh | |
| Boroughbridge (seat 1/2) | Thomas Wilkinson – took office Replaced by Sir Wilfrid Lawson 1718 |
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| Boroughbridge (seat 2/2) | Richard Steele | Whig |
| Bossiney (seat 1/2) | Henry Cartwright | |
| Bossiney (seat 2/2) | Samuel Molyneux | |
| Boston (seat 1/2) | Henry Heron | |
| Boston (seat 2/2) | Richard Wynn - died Replaced by Richard Ellys 1720 |
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| Brackley (seat 1/2) | Hon. William Egerton | |
| Brackley (seat 2/2) | Paul Methuen | |
| Bramber (seat 1/2) | Sir Richard Gough | |
| Bramber (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Style – unseated on petition Replaced by Edward Minshull |
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| Brecon (seat 1/1) | Roger Jones | |
| Breconshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Edward Williams - died Replaced by William Gwyn Vaughan 1721 |
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| Bridgnorth (seat 1/2) | William Whitmore | |
| Bridgnorth (seat 2/2) | John Weaver | |
| Bridgwater (seat 1/2) | George Dodington - died Replaced by William Pitt 1720 |
Whig . |
| Bridgwater (seat 2/2) | Thomas Palmer | Tory |
| Bridport (seat 1/2) | John Strangways – unseated on petition Replaced by Peter Walter 1715 |
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| Bridport (seat 2/2) | William Coventry - succeeded peerage Replaced by Dewey Bulkeley 1719 |
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| Bristol (seat 1/2) | Sir William Daines | |
| Bristol (seat 2/2) | Joseph Earle | |
| Buckingham (seat 1/2) | Alexander Denton | |
| Buckingham (seat 2/2) | Abraham Stanyan – took office Replaced by Edmund Halsey 1717 |
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| Buckinghamshire (seat 1/2) | John Fleetwood | |
| Buckinghamshire (seat 2/2) | Richard Hampden | |
| Bury St Edmunds (seat 1/2) | Aubrey Porter - died Replaced by James Reynolds 1717 |
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| Bury St Edmunds (seat 2/2) | Lord Hervey | |
| Buteshire (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Caithness - unrepresented in this Parliament | |
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| Caernarvon Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Sir Thomas Wynn, Bt | |
| Caernarvonshire (seat 1/1) | William Griffith - died Replaced by John Griffith 1715 |
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| Caithness (seat 1/1) | Sir Robert Gordon, 4th Baronet | |
| Callington (seat 1/2) | Samuel Rolle - died Replaced by Thomas Coplestone 1719 |
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| Callington (seat 2/2) | Sir John Coryton | |
| Calne (seat 1/2) | Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Bt | |
| Calne (seat 2/2) | Richard Chiswell | |
| Cambridge (seat 1/2) | John Hynde Cotton | Tory |
| Cambridge (seat 2/2) | Thomas Sclater Replaced by Samuel Shepheard 1715 |
Tory . |
| Cambridgeshire (seat 1/2) | John Bromley - died Replaced by Francis Whichcote 1718 |
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| Cambridgeshire (seat 2/2) | John Jenyns - died Replaced by Robert Clarke 1717 |
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| Cambridge University (seat 1/2) | Hon. Dixie Windsor | |
| Cambridge University (seat 2/2) | Thomas Paske - died Replaced by Thomas Willoughby 1720 |
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| Camelford (seat 1/2) | James Montagu | |
| Camelford (seat 2/2) | Richard Coffin | |
| Canterbury (seat 1/2) | John Hardres | |
| Canterbury (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Hales, Bt | |
| Cardiff Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Sir Edward Stradling, Bt | |
| Cardigan Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Stephen Parry | |
| Cardiganshire (seat 1/1) | Lewis Pryse Expelled for refusing to take loyalty oaths Replaced by Owen Brigstocke 1717 |
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| Carlisle (seat 1/2) | William Strickland | Whig |
| Carlisle (seat 2/2) | Thomas Stanwix – took office Replaced by Henry Aglionby, 1721 |
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| Carmarthen (seat 1/1) | Richard Vaughan | |
| Carmarthenshire (seat 1/1) | Marquess of Winchester - ennobled Replaced by Sir Thomas Stepney 1717 |
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| Castle Rising (seat 1/2) | Hon. William Feilding | |
| Castle Rising (seat 2/2) | Charles Churchill | |
| Cheshire (seat 1/2) | Sir George Warburton, Bt | |
| Cheshire (seat 2/2) | Langham Booth | Whig |
| Chester (seat 1/2) | Sir Henry Bunbury, Bt | |
| Chester (seat 2/2) | Sir Richard Grosvenor, Bt | |
| Chichester (seat 1/2) | Sir Richard Farington - died Replaced by Henry Kelsall 1719 |
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| Chichester (seat 2/2) | Thomas Miller | |
| Chippenham (seat 1/2) | Sir John Eyles | |
| Chippenham (seat 2/2) | Giles Earle | |
| Chipping Wycombe (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Lee, Bt | |
| Chipping Wycombe (seat 2/2) | Sir John Wittewronge, Bt - died Replaced by John Neale 1722 |
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| Christchurch (seat 1/2) | Peter Mews | |
| Christchurch (seat 2/2) | William Ettrick - died Replaced by Francis Gwyn 1717 |
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| Cirencester (seat 1/2) | Thomas Master | Tory |
| Cirencester (seat 2/2) | Benjamin Bathurst | Tory |
| City of Durham | see Durham (City of) | ... |
| City of London | see London (City of) | ... |
| Clackmannanshire (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Kinross-shire - unrepresented in this Parliament | |
| Clitheroe (seat 1/2) | Thomas Lister | |
| Clitheroe (seat 2/2) | Edward Harvey | |
| Clyde Burghs | see Glasgow Burghs | ... |
| Cockermouth (seat 1/2) | Nicholas Lechmere - took office Replaced by double return of Lord Percy Seymour and Wilfrid Lawson 1717 Lord Percy Seymour declared elected 1718 - died Replaced by Anthony Lowther 1721 |
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| Cockermouth (seat 2/2) | James Stanhope Replaced by Thomas Pengelly 1717 |
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| Colchester (seat 1/2) | Richard Du Cane | Whig |
| Colchester (seat 2/2) | Sir Isaac Rebow | Whig |
| Corfe Castle (seat 1/2) | Denis Bond | |
| Corfe Castle (seat 2/2) | William Okeden - died Replaced by Double Return Joshua Churchill and John Bankes 1718 Joshua Churchill declared elected 1719- died Replaced by John Bond 1721 |
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| Cornwall (seat 1/2) | Sir William Carew, Bt | |
| Cornwall (seat 2/2) | John Trevanion | |
| County Durham | see Durham (County) | ... |
| Coventry (seat 1/2) | (Sir) Adolphus Oughton | |
| Coventry (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Samwell, Bt | |
| Cricklade (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Reade | |
| Cricklade (seat 2/2) | Jacob Sawbridge - expelled (Director of the South Sea Company) Replaced by Matthew Ducie Moreton 1721 |
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| Cromartyshire (seat 1/1) | Alexander Urquhart | |
| Cumberland (seat 1/2) | James Lowther | |
| Cumberland (seat 2/2) | Gilfrid Lawson | |
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| Dartmouth (seat 1/2) | Joseph Herne | |
| Dartmouth (seat 2/2) | John Fownes | |
| Denbigh Boroughs (seat 1/1) | John Roberts | |
| Denbighshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Richard Myddelton, Bt - died Replaced by Watkin Williams 1716 |
Tory |
| Derby (seat 1/2) | Lord James Cavendish | |
| Derby (seat 2/2) | William Stanhope | Whig |
| Derbyshire (seat 1/2) | Godfrey Clarke | |
| Derbyshire (seat 2/2) | John Curzon | |
| Devizes (seat 1/2) | Josiah Diston | |
| Devizes (seat 2/2) | Francis Eyles - expelled (Director of the South Sea Company) Replaced by Benjamin Haskins Stiles 1721 |
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| Devon (seat 1/2) | Sir William Courtenay | |
| Devon (seat 2/2) | Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, Bt | |
| Dorchester (seat 1/2) | Nathaniel Napier | |
| Dorchester (seat 2/2) | Henry Trenchard - died Replaced by Robert Browne 1720 – unseated on petition Replaced by Abraham Janssen 1720 |
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| Dorset (seat 1/2) | George Chafin | |
| Dorset (seat 2/2) | Thomas Strangways | |
| Dover (seat 1/2) | Matthew Aylmer - died Replaced by George Berkeley 1720 |
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| Dover (seat 2/2) | Philip Papillon - took office Replaced by Henry Furnese 1720 |
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| Downton (seat 1/2) | Charles Longueville | |
| Downton (seat 2/2) | John Eyre - died Replaced by Giles Eyre 1715 |
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| Droitwich (seat 1/2) | Richard Foley | |
| Droitwich (seat 2/2) | Edward Jeffreys | |
| Dumfries Burghs (seat 1/1) | Alexander Fergusson | |
| Dumfriesshire (seat 1/1) | Sir William Johnstone, Bt | |
| Dunbartonshire (seat 1/1) | Hon. John Campbell | |
| Dunwich (seat 1/2) | Sir Robert Rich, Bt | |
| Dunwich (seat 2/2) | Charles Long | |
| Durham (City of) (seat 1/2) | Thomas Conyers | |
| Durham (City of) (seat 2/2) | George Baker | |
| Durham (County) (seat 1/2) | Sir John Eden | Tory |
| Durham (County) (seat 2/2) | John Hedworth | Independent Whig |
| Dysart Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Kerr | |
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| East Grinstead (seat 1/2) | John Conyers | |
| East Grinstead (seat 2/2) | Hon. Spencer Compton - sat for Sussex Replaced by The Viscount Shannon 1715 |
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| East Looe (seat 1/2) | John Smith | Whig |
| East Looe (seat 2/2) | Sir James Bateman - died Replaced by Horatio Walpole 1718 |
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| East Retford (seat 1/2) | Thomas White | |
| East Retford (seat 2/2) | John Digby | |
| Edinburgh (seat 1/1) | Sir George Warrender - died Replaced by John Campbell 1721 |
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| Edinburghshire (seat 1/1) | John Baird | |
| Elgin Burghs (seat 1/1) | John Campbell, later Duke of Argyll | |
| Elginshire (seat 1/1) | Alexander Grant - died Replaced by James Brodie 1720 - died Replaced by Alexander Brodie 1720 |
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| Essex (seat 1/2) | Thomas Middleton - died Replaced by William Harvey 1715 - unseated on petition Replaced by Robert Honywood 1716 |
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| Essex (seat 2/2) | Richard Child | |
| Evesham (seat 1/2) | John Deacle | |
| Evesham (seat 2/2) | John Rudge | |
| Exeter (seat 1/2) | John Bampfylde | |
| Exeter (seat 2/2) | Francis Drewe | |
| Eye (seat 1/2) | Edward Hopkins | |
| Eye (seat 2/2) | Thomas Smith | |
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| Fife (seat 1/1) | Sir John Anstruther | |
| Flint Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Sir John Conway - died Replaced by Thomas Eyton 1721 |
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| Flintshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Roger Mostyn | |
| Forfarshire (seat 1/1) | John Carnegie - expelled for supporting the Jacobite Rising Replaced by James Scott 1716 |
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| Fowey (seat 1/2) | Jonathan Elford | |
| Fowey (seat 2/2) | Henry Vincent - died Replaced by Nicholas Vincent 1719 |
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| Gatton (seat 1/2) | William Newland | |
| Gatton (seat 2/2) | Paul Docminique | |
| Glamorganshire (seat 1/1) | Robert Jones - died Replaced by Sir Charles Kemeys 1716 |
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| Glasgow Burghs (seat 1/1) | Thomas Smith - died Replaced by Daniel Campbell 1716 |
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| Gloucester (seat 1/2) | John Snell | |
| Gloucester (seat 2/2) | Charles Coxe | |
| Gloucestershire (seat 1/2) | Thomas Stephens II - died Replaced by Henry Berkeley 1720 |
Whig . |
| Gloucestershire (seat 2/2) | Matthew Moreton - ennobled Replaced by Edmund Bray 1720 |
Tory |
| Grampound (seat 1/2) | Hon. John West | |
| Grampound (seat 2/2) | Charles Cooke - died Replaced by Richard West 1721 |
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| Grantham (seat 1/2) | Edward Rolt | |
| Grantham (seat 2/2) | John Heathcote | |
| Great Bedwyn (seat 1/2) | Stephen Bisse | |
| Great Bedwyn (seat 2/2) | William Sloper | |
| Great Grimsby (seat 1/2) | Sir Robert Chaplin - expelled (Director of the South Sea Company) Replaced by Arthur Moore 1721 |
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| Great Grimsby (seat 2/2) | Joseph Banks | |
| Great Marlow (seat 1/2) | The Lord Shelburne | |
| Great Marlow (seat 2/2) | George Bruere | . |
| Great Yarmouth (seat 1/2) | George England | |
| Great Yarmouth (seat 2/2) | Horatio Townshend | |
| Guildford (seat 1/2) | Denzil Onslow Replaced by Robert Wroth 1717 - died Replaced by Arthur Onslow 1720 |
Whig . Whig |
| Guildford (seat 2/2) | Morgan Randyll | Whig |
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| Haddington Burghs (seat 1/1) | Hon. Sir David Dalrymple | |
| Haddingtonshire (seat 1/1) | John Cockburn | |
| Hampshire (seat 1/2) | John Wallop - ennobled Replaced by Lord Nassau Powlett 1720 |
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| Hampshire (seat 2/2) | George Pitt | |
| Harwich (seat 1/2) | Sir Philip Parker-a-Morley-Long, Bt | |
| Harwich (seat 2/2) | Thomas Heath | |
| Haslemere (seat 1/2) | Nicholas Carew | |
| Haslemere (seat 2/2) | Sir Montague Blundell, Bt | |
| Hastings (seat 1/2) | Archibald Hutcheson | |
| Hastings (seat 2/2) | Henry Pelham | |
| Haverfordwest (seat 1/1) | John Laugharne - died Replaced by Sir George Barlow 1715 - result reversed on petition Replaced by John Barlow 1715- died Replaced by Sir John Philipps 1718 |
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| Hedon (seat 1/2) | Hugh Cholmley – took office Replaced by Daniel Pulteney 1721 |
Whig |
| Hedon (seat 2/2) | William Pulteney | Whig |
| Helston (seat 1/2) | Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bt | Whig |
| Helston (seat 2/2) | Sidney Godolphin | |
| Hereford (seat 1/2) | The Viscount Scudamore- died Replaced by Herbert Rudhale Westfaling 1717 |
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| Hereford (seat 2/2) | Thomas Foley | |
| Herefordshire (seat 1/2) | Richard Hopton | |
| Herefordshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Morgan - died Replaced by Sir Hungerford Hoskyns 1717 |
Tory |
| Hertford (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Clarke | |
| Hertford (seat 2/2) | John Boteler | |
| Hertfordshire (seat 1/2) | Ralph Freman | |
| Hertfordshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Sebright, Bt | |
| Heytesbury (seat 1/2) | Edward Ashe | |
| Heytesbury (seat 2/2) | William Ashe | |
| Higham Ferrers (seat 1/1) | Charles Leigh | |
| Hindon (seat 1/2) | Reynolds Calthorpe, the younger - died Replaced by John Pitt 1720 |
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| Hindon (seat 2/2) | Major-General George Wade | |
| Honiton (seat 1/2) | Sir William Courtenay - sat for Devon Replaced by Sir William Pole 1716 |
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| Honiton (seat 2/2) | Sir William Yonge | |
| Horsham (seat 1/2) | Arthur Ingram – ennobled Replaced by Charles Eversfield 1721 |
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| Horsham (seat 2/2) | Arthur Ingram | |
| Huntingdon (seat 1/2) | Sidney Wortley-Montagu | |
| Huntingdon (seat 2/2) | Viscount Hinchingbrooke | |
| Huntingdonshire (seat 1/2) | John Bigg | |
| Huntingdonshire (seat 2/2) | Robert Pigott | |
| Hythe (seat 1/2) | Jacob des Bouverie | |
| Hythe (seat 2/2) | Sir Samuel Lennard | |
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| Ilchester (seat 1/2) | William Bellamy | |
| Ilchester (seat 2/2) | John Hopkins | |
| Inverness Burghs (seat 1/1) | William Steuart | |
| Inverness-shire (seat 1/1) | John Forbes | |
| Ipswich (seat 1/2) | William Churchill – took office Replaced by Francis Negus 1717 |
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| Ipswich (seat 2/2) | William Thompson | |
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| Kent (seat 1/2) | Mildmay Fane - died Replaced by John Fane 1715 |
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| Kent (seat 2/2) | William Delaune | |
| Kincardineshire (seat 1/1) | James Scott | |
| King's Lynn (seat 1/2) | Sir Robert Walpole | Whig |
| King's Lynn (seat 2/2) | Sir Charles Turner | |
| Kingston upon Hull (seat 1/2) | Sir William St Quintin | Tory |
| Kingston upon Hull (seat 2/2) | William Maister - died Replaced by Nathaniel Rogers 1717 |
Tory |
| Kinross-shire (seat 1/1) | William Douglas | |
| Kirkcudbright Stewartry (seat 1/1) | Alexander Murray | |
| Knaresborough (seat 1/2) | The Earl Mountrath - died Replaced by Richard Arundell 1720 |
Whig . |
| Knaresborough (seat 2/2) | Robert Hitch | |
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| Lanarkshire (seat 1/1) | James Lockhart - died Replaced by Lord Archibald Hamilton 1718 |
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| Lancashire (seat 1/2) | Sir John Bland | |
| Lancashire (seat 2/2) | Richard Shuttleworth | Tory |
| Lancaster (seat 1/2) | William Heysham - died Replaced by William Heysham, jnr 1716 |
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| Lancaster (seat 2/2) | Dodding Bradyll | |
| Launceston (seat 1/2) | Edward Herle - died Replaced by Alexander Pendarves 1721 |
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| Launceston (seat 2/2) | John Anstis | |
| Leicester (seat 1/2) | James Winstanley - died Replaced by Thomas Noble 1719 |
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| Leicester (seat 2/2) | Sir George Beaumont | |
| Leicestershire (seat 1/2) | Geoffrey Palmer | |
| Leicestershire (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Cave - died Replaced by Lord William Manners 1719 |
Tory . |
| Leominster (seat 1/2) | The Lord Coningsby - ennobled Replaced by George Caswall 1717 - expelled Replaced by William Bateman 1721 |
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| Leominster (seat 2/2) | Edward Harley | |
| Lewes (seat 1/2) | Thomas Pelham | |
| Lewes (seat 2/2) | John Morley Trevor - died Replaced by Philip Yorke 1719 |
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| Lichfield (seat 1/2) | Walter Chetwynd - took office Replaced by William Sneyd 1718 - unseated on petition Replaced by Walter Chetwynd 1718 |
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| Lichfield (seat 2/2) | Samuel Hill | |
| Lincoln (seat 1/2) | Sir John Tyrwhitt, Bt | |
| Lincoln (seat 2/2) | Richard Grantham | |
| Lincolnshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Willoughby Hickman, Bt. - died Replaced by Sir William Massingberd 1721 |
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| Lincolnshire (seat 2/2) | John Brownlow | |
| Linlithgow Burghs (seat 1/1) | Hon. George Douglas | |
| Linlithgowshire (seat 1/1) | Sir James Cunynghame | |
| Liskeard (seat 1/2) | Philip Rashleigh | Tory |
| Liskeard (seat 2/2) | Sir John Trelawny | |
| Liverpool (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Johnson | Whig |
| Liverpool (seat 2/2) | Edward Norris | |
| London (City of) (seat 1/4) | Robert Heysham | Whig |
| London (City of) (seat 2/4) | Sir John Ward | Whig |
| London (City of) (seat 3/4) | Peter Godfrey | Tory |
| London (City of) (seat 4/4) | Sir Thomas Scawen | Whig |
| Lostwithiel (seat 1/2) | Thomas Liddell - died Replaced by Edward Eliot 1718 – took office Replaced by John Newsham 1720 |
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| Lostwithiel (seat 2/2) | Galfridus Walpole – took office Replaced by Marquess of Hartington 1721 |
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| Ludgershall (seat 1/2) | John Richmond Webb | Tory |
| Ludgershall (seat 2/2) | John Ivory-Talbot | |
| Ludlow (seat 1/2) | Humphrey Walcot | |
| Ludlow (seat 2/2) | Sir Robert Raymond | |
| Lyme Regis (seat 1/2) | John Henley | |
| Lyme Regis (seat 2/2) | John Burridge | |
| Lymington (seat 1/2) | Lord William Powlett - sat for Winchester Replaced by Richard Chaundler 1715 |
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| Lymington (seat 2/2) | Sir Joseph Jekyll | Whig |
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| Maidstone (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Culpeper | |
| Maidstone (seat 2/2) | Sir Robert Marsham - ennobled Replaced by Sir Barnham Rider 1716 |
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| Maldon (seat 1/2) | Samuel Tufnell | |
| Maldon (seat 2/2) | Thomas Bramston | Whig |
| Malmesbury (seat 1/2) | Sir John Rushout | |
| Malmesbury (seat 2/2) | Joseph Addison - died Replaced by Fleetwood Dormer 1719 |
Whig . |
| Malton (seat 1/2) | Thomas Watson Wentworth | |
| Malton (seat 2/2) | Thomas Watson-Wentworth II | |
| Marlborough (seat 1/2) | Sir William Humphreys | |
| Marlborough (seat 2/2) | Joshua Ward – unseated on petition Replaced by Gabriel Roberts 1717 |
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| Marlow | see Great Marlow | ... |
| Melcombe Regis | see Weymouth and Melcombe Regis | ... |
| Merionethshire (seat 1/1) | Richard Vaughan | |
| Middlesex (seat 1/2) | Hon. James Bertie | |
| Middlesex (seat 2/2) | Hugh Smithson | |
| Midhurst (seat 1/2) | William Woodward Knight - died Replaced by Sir Richard Mill 1721 |
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| Midhurst (seat 2/2) | John Fortescue Aland – took office Replaced by The Lord Midleton 1717 |
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| Milborne Port (seat 1/2) | John Cox - died Replaced by Michael Harvey 1717 - unseated on petition Replaced by Charles Stanhope 1717 |
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| Milborne Port (seat 2/2) | James Medlycott | |
| Minehead (seat 1/2) | Sir William Wyndham Void Election Replaced by Samuel Edwin - unseated on petition Replaced by Sir John Trevelyan |
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| Minehead (seat 2/2) | Sir John Trevelyan Void Election Replaced by Thomas Gage 1717 - unseated on petition Replaced by James Milner- died Replaced by Sir Richard Lane 1721 - unseated on petition Replaced by Robert Mansel 1722 |
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| Mitchell (seat 1/2) | Nathaniel Blakiston | |
| Mitchell (seat 2/2) | Robert Molesworth | |
| Monmouth Boroughs (seat 1/1) | William Bray - died Replaced by Andrews Windsor 1720 |
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| Monmouthshire (seat 1/2) | John Morgan - died Replaced by John Hanbury 1720 |
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| Monmouthshire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Lewis | |
| Montgomery (seat 1/1) | John Pugh | |
| Montgomeryshire (seat 1/1) | Edward Vaughan - died Replaced by Price Devereux 1719 |
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| Morpeth (seat 1/2) | Viscount Morpeth | |
| Morpeth (seat 2/2) | The Viscount Castlecomer - sat for Ripon Replaced by George Carpenter 1717 |
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| Much Wenlock (seat 1/2) | see Wenlock | ... |
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| Nairnshire (seat 0/0) | Alternating seat with Cromartyshire - unrepresented in this parliament | |
| Newark (seat 1/2) | Richard Sutton | |
| Newark (seat 2/2) | Conyers Darcy | |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 1/2) | Sir Brian Broughton | |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme (seat 2/2) | Crewe Offley | |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 1/2) | Sir William Blackett, Bt. | |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (seat 2/2) | William Wrightson | |
| Newport (Cornwall) (seat 1/2) | Sir Nicholas Morice | |
| Newport (Cornwall) (seat 2/2) | Humphry Morice | Whig |
| Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Anthony Morgan - sat for Yarmouth Replaced by James Stanhope 1717 - ennobled Replaced by Sir Tristram Dillington 1717 - died Replaced by Thomas Stanwix 1720 |
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| Newport (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | William Stephens | |
| New Radnor Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Thomas Lewis | Whig |
| New Romney (seat 2/2) | Robert Furnese | Whig |
| New Romney (seat 1/2) | Edward Watson | |
| New Shoreham (seat 1/2) | Sir Gregory Page - died Replaced by Francis Chamberlayne 1720 |
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| New Shoreham (seat 2/2) | Nathaniel Gould | |
| Newton (Lancashire) (seat 2/2) | Sir Francis Leicester | |
| Newton (Lancashire) (seat 1/2) | William Shippen | |
| Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Sir James Worsley | |
| Newtown (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Sir Robert Worsley | |
| New Windsor (seat 1/2) | Robert Gayer – void election Replaced by Sir Henry Ashurst, Bt 1715 |
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| New Windsor (seat 2/2) | Christopher Wren – void election Replaced by Samuel Travers 1715 |
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| New Woodstock (seat 2/2) | William Cadogan - ennobled Replaced by William Clayton 1716 |
Whig |
| New Woodstock (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Wheate - died Replaced by Charles Crisp Clayton 1721 |
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| Norfolk (seat 1/2) | Thomas de Grey | |
| Norfolk (seat 2/2) | Sir Jacob Astley, Bt. | Whig |
| Northallerton (seat 1/2) | Leonard Smelt | |
| Northallerton (seat 2/2) | Cholmley Turner | |
| Northampton (seat 1/2) | George Montagu - succeeded to peerage Replaced by William Wilmer 1715 |
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| Northampton (seat 2/2) | William Wykes | |
| Northamptonshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Justinian Isham | Tory |
| Northamptonshire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Cartwright | Tory |
| Northumberland (seat 1/2) | Thomas Forster - expelled for supporting the Jacobite Rising Replaced by Francis Blake Delaval 1716 |
Tory |
| Northumberland (seat 2/2) | Earl of Hertford | |
| Norwich (seat 1/2) | Waller Bacon | |
| Norwich (seat 2/2) | Robert Brightiffe | |
| Nottingham (seat 1/2) | John Plumptre | |
| Nottingham (seat 2/2) | George Gregory | |
| Nottinghamshire (seat 1/2) | Hon. Francis Willoughby | |
| Nottinghamshire (seat 2/2) | William Levinz | |
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| Okehampton (seat 1/2) | William Northmore | |
| Okehampton (seat 2/2) | Christopher Harris | |
| Old Sarum (seat 1/2) | Thomas Pitt – took office Sir William Strickland 1716 |
. Whig |
| Old Sarum (seat 2/2) | Robert Pitt | |
| Orford (seat 1/2) | Clement Corrance | |
| Orford (seat 2/2) | Sir Edward Turnour - died Replaced by Sir Edward Duke 1721 |
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| Orkney and Shetland (seat 1/1) | James Moodie | |
| Oxford (seat 1/2) | Thomas Rowney | |
| Oxford (seat 2/2) | Sir John Walter | |
| Oxfordshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Robert Jenkinson - died Replaced by Sir Banks Jenkinson 1717 |
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| Oxfordshire (seat 2/2) | Francis Clerke - died Replaced by James Herbert 1715 - died Replaced by Henry Perrot 1721 |
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| Oxford University (seat 1/2) | Sir William Whitelock - died Replaced by George Clarke | 1717 |
Tory Tory |
| Oxford University (seat 2/2) | Wiliam Bromley | Tory |
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| Peeblesshire (seat 1/1) | Alexander Murray | |
| Pembroke Boroughs (seat 1/1) | Thomas Ferrers | Whig |
| Pembrokeshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Arthur Owen, Bt | |
| Penryn (seat 1/2) | Samuel Trefusis | |
| Penryn (seat 2/2) | Hugh Boscawen - ennobled Replaced by Viscount Rialton 1720 |
Whig Whig |
| Perth Burghs (seat 1/1) | Patrick Haldane | |
| Perthshire (seat 1/1) | Lord James Murray | |
| Peterborough (seat 1/2) | Viscount Milton | Whig |
| Peterborough (seat 2/2) | Charles Parker | Tory |
| Petersfield (seat 1/2) | Norton Powlett | |
| Petersfield (seat 2/2) | Leonard Bilson - died Replaced by Samuel Pargiter Fuller 1715 |
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| Plymouth (seat 1/2) | Sir John Rogers | |
| Plymouth (seat 2/2) | Sir George Byng - ennobled Replaced by Pattee Byng 1721 |
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| Plympton Erle (seat 1/2) | Richard Edgcumbe | Whig |
| Plympton Erle (seat 2/2) | George Treby | |
| Pontefract (seat 1/2) | John Dawnay - unseated on petition Replaced by Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet 1716 |
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| Pontefract (seat 2/2) | Robert Frank - unseated on petition Replaced by Hugh Bethell 1716 |
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| Poole (seat 1/2) | George Trenchard | |
| Poole (seat 2/2) | William Lewen | |
| Portsmouth (seat 1/2) | Sir Charles Wager | |
| Portsmouth (seat 2/2) | Sir Edward Ernle, Bt | |
| Preston (seat 1/2) | Henry Fleetwood | |
| Preston (seat 2/2) | Sir Henry Hoghton | |
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| Queenborough (seat 1/2) | Colonel Thomas King | |
| Queenborough (seat 2/2) | Philip Jennings | |
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| Radnor Boroughs | see New Radnor Boroughs | ... |
| Radnorshire (seat 1/1) | Richard Fowler | |
| Reading (seat 1/2) | Robert Clarges Void Election Replaced by Charles Cadogan 1716 |
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| Reading (seat 2/2) | Felix Calvert Void Election Replaced by Owen Buckingham 1716 - died Replaced by Richard Thompson 1720 |
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| Reigate (seat 1/2) | James Cocks | |
| Reigate (seat 2/2) | Sir John Parsons - died Replaced by William Jordan 1717- died Replaced by Thomas Jordan 1720 |
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| Renfrewshire (seat 1/1) | Sir Robert Pollock, Bt | |
| Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 1/2) | Thomas Yorke - died Replaced by John Yorke 1717 |
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| Richmond (Yorkshire) (seat 2/2) | Hon. Harry Mordaunt - died Replaced by Richard Abell 1720 |
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| Ripon (seat 1/2) | John Aislabie - expelled Replaced by William Aislabie II 1721 |
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| Ripon (seat 2/2) | The Viscount Castlecomer - died Replaced by William Aislabie I 1719 |
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| Rochester (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Palmer, Bt | |
| Rochester (seat 2/2) | Sir John Jennings | |
| Ross-shire (seat 1/1) | Charles Ross | |
| Roxburghshire (seat 1/1) | William Douglas | |
| Rutland (seat 1/2) | Lord Finch | |
| Rutland (seat 2/2) | John Noel - died Replaced by Marquess of Granby 1719 - succeeded to a peerage Replaced by Sir Thomas Mackworth 1721 |
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| Rye (seat 1/2) | Phillips Gybbon | |
| Rye (seat 2/2) | Sir John Norris | |
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| St Albans (seat 1/2) | William Hale - died Replaced by Joshua Lomax 1717 |
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| St Albans (seat 2/2) | William Grimston | |
| St Germans (seat 1/2) | Waller Bacon - sat for Norwich Replaced by Lord Stanhope 1715 |
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| St Germans (seat 2/2) | John Knight | |
| St Ives (seat 1/2) | Lord Harry Powlett | Whig |
| St Ives (seat 2/2) | Sir John Hobart | |
| St Mawes (seat 1/2) | William Lowndes | |
| St Mawes (seat 2/2) | John Chetwynd | |
| Salisbury (seat 1/2) | Francis Swanton - died Replaced by Anthony Duncombe 1721 |
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| Salisbury (seat 2/2) | Edmund Lambert | |
| Saltash (seat 1/2) | Shilston Calmady | |
| Saltash (seat 2/2) | William Shippen - sat for Newton Replaced by John Francis Buller 1718 |
Tory . |
| Sandwich (seat 1/2) | (Sir) Thomas D'Aeth | |
| Sandwich (seat 2/2) | Sir Henry Oxenden - died Replaced by Sir George Oxenden 1720 |
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| Scarborough (seat 1/2) | John Hungerford | Tory |
| Scarborough (seat 2/2) | William Thompson | |
| Seaford (seat 1/2) | George Naylor | |
| Seaford (seat 2/2) | Sir William Ashburnham – took office Replaced by Henry Pelham 1717 |
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| Selkirkshire (seat 1/1) | John Pringle | |
| Shaftesbury (seat 1/2) | Samuel Rush- unseated on petition Replaced by William Benson 1715 - unseated on petition after by-election Replaced by Sir Edward des Bouverie 1719 |
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| Shaftesbury (seat 2/2) | Edward Nicholas | |
| Shrewsbury (seat 1/2) | Thomas Jones - died Replaced by Andrew Corbet 1715 |
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| Shrewsbury (seat 2/2) | Corbet Kynaston | |
| Shropshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Robert Corbet | |
| Shropshire (seat 2/2) | Lord Newport | |
| Shoreham | see New Shoreham | ... |
| Somerset (seat 1/2) | William Helyar | |
| Somerset (seat 2/2) | Sir William Wyndham, Bt | Tory |
| Southampton (seat 1/2) | Thomas Lewis | |
| Southampton (seat 2/2) | Richard Fleming | |
| Southwark (seat 1/2) | John Lade | |
| Southwark (seat 2/2) | Fisher Tench | Whig |
| Stafford (seat 1/2) | 1st Viscount Chetwynd | |
| Stafford (seat 2/2) | William Richard Chetwynd | |
| Staffordshire (seat 1/2) | Lord Paget | Tory |
| Staffordshire (seat 2/2) | William Ward - died Replaced by William Leveson Gower 1720 |
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| Stamford (seat 1/2) | Hon. Charles Cecil | |
| Stamford (seat 2/2) | Hon. Charles Bertie | |
| Steyning (seat 1/2) | Major General John Pepper | |
| Steyning (seat 2/2) | Robert Leeves -void election Replaced by William Wallis |
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| Stirling Burghs (seat 1/1) | Henry Cunningham | |
| Stirlingshire (seat 1/1) | Mungo Haldane | |
| Stockbridge (seat 1/2) | Thomas Brodrick | |
| Stockbridge (seat 2/2) | Martin Bladen | |
| Sudbury (seat 1/2) | Sir Hervey Elwes | |
| Sudbury (seat 2/2) | Thomas Western | |
| Suffolk (seat 1/2) | Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bt | |
| Suffolk (seat 2/2) | Sir Robert Davers, Bt | |
| Surrey (seat 1/2) | Hon. Heneage Finch - succeeded to a peerage Replaced by John Walter 1719 |
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| Surrey (seat 2/2) | Sir Richard Onslow – took office Replaced by Thomas Onslow 1715 -succeeded to a peerage Replaced by Denzil Onslow 1717 - died Replaced by Sir William Scawen 1721 |
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| Sussex (seat 1/2) | James Butler | Whig |
| Sussex (seat 2/2) | Hon. Spencer Compton | Whig |
| Sutherland (seat 1/1) | Sir William Gordon | |
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| Tain Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir Robert Munro, Bt | |
| Tamworth (seat 1/2) | Samuel Bracebridge | |
| Tamworth (seat 2/2) | William Inge | |
| Taunton (seat 1/2) | Sir Francis Warre – unseated on petition Replaced by William Pynsent |
Tory Whig |
| Taunton (seat 2/2) | Henry Seymour Portman – unseated on petition Replaced by James Smith |
Tory Whig |
| Tavistock (seat 1/2) | Sir John Cope | |
| Tavistock (seat 2/2) | Sir Francis Henry Drake, Bt | |
| Tewkesbury (seat 1/2) | Anthony Lechmere – took office Replaced by Nicholas Lechmere 1717 |
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| Tewkesbury (seat 2/2) | William Dowdeswell | |
| Thetford (seat 1/2) | John Ward | |
| Thetford (seat 2/2) | Dudley North | |
| Thirsk (seat 2/2) | Ralph Bell – took office Replaced by Thomas Pitt 1717 |
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| Thirsk (seat 1/2) | Thomas Frankland | |
| Tiverton (seat 1/2) | Sir Edward Northey | |
| Tiverton (seat 2/2) | Thomas Bere | |
| Totnes (seat 2/2) | Stephen Northleigh | |
| Totnes (seat 1/2) | Arthur Champernowne - died Replaced by Sir John Germain 1717 - died Replaced by Charles Wills 1718 |
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| Tregony (seat 1/2) | Sir Edmund Prideaux - died Replaced by Charles Talbot 1720 |
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| Tregony (seat 2/2) | James Craggs - died Replaced by Daniel Pulteney 1721 - resigned Replaced by John Merrill 1721 |
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| Truro (seat 1/2) | Spencer Cowper | |
| Truro (seat 2/2) | John Selwyn - took office Replaced by Thomas Wyndham 1721 |
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| Wallingford (seat 1/2) | Edmund Dunch - died Replaced by Henry Grey 1719 |
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| Wallingford (seat 2/2) | William Hucks | |
| Wareham (seat 1/2) | George Pitt - sat for Hampshire Replaced by George Pitt, junior 1715 |
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| Wareham (seat 2/2) | Thomas Erle – pensioned Replaced by Henry Drax 1718 |
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| Warwick (seat 1/2) | William Colemore | |
| Warwick (seat 2/2) | Hon. Dodington Greville | |
| Warwickshire (seat 1/2) | William Peyto | |
| Warwickshire (seat 2/2) | Andrew Archer | |
| Wells (seat 1/2) | William Coward - died Replaced by Thomas Strangways Horner 1716 - unseated on petition Replaced by John Dodd 1717 - died Replaced by Thomas Edwards 1719 |
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| Wells (seat 2/2) | William Piers | |
| Wendover (seat 1/2) | Richard Grenville | |
| Wendover (seat 2/2) | Sir Roger Hill | |
| Wenlock (seat 2/2) | Thomas Newport - ennobled Replaced by Sir Humphrey Briggs 1716 |
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| Wenlock (seat 1/2) | William Forester II | |
| Weobley (seat 1/2) | Paul Foley – unseated on petition Replaced by John Birch 1715 |
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| Weobley (seat 2/2) | Charles Cornewall - died Replaced by Nicholas Philpott 1718 |
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| West Looe (seat 1/2) | Rear Admiral George Delaval | |
| West Looe (seat 2/2) | Thomas Maynard | |
| Westbury (seat 1/2) | Willoughby Bertie – unseated on petition Replaced by Lord Carbery |
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| Westbury (seat 2/2) | Francis Annesley – unseated on petition Replaced by Charles Allanson |
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| Westminster (seat 1/2) | Edward Wortley-Montagu | Whig |
| Westminster (seat 2/2) | Sir Thomas Crosse, Bt | |
| Westmorland (seat 1/2) | Daniel Wilson | |
| Westmorland (seat 2/2) | James Grahme | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 1/4) | John Baker - died Replaced by Edward Harrison 1717 |
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| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 2/4) | Thomas Littleton | |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 3/4) | Lieutenant-General Daniel Harvey | Whig |
| Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (seat 4/4) | William Betts | |
| Whitchurch (seat 2/2) | General George Carpenter | |
| Whitchurch (seat 1/2) | Thomas Vernon - expelled Replaced by Frederick Tylney 1721 - unseated on petition Replaced by John Conduitt 1721 |
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| Wigan (seat 1/2) | Sir Roger Bradshaigh | |
| Wigan (seat 2/2) | James Barry | |
| Wigtown Burghs (seat 1/1) | Sir Patrick Vanse | |
| Wigtownshire (seat 1/1) | John Stewart | |
| Wilton (seat 1/2) | John London | |
| Wilton (seat 2/2) | Thomas Pitt | |
| Wiltshire (seat 1/2) | Sir Richard Grobham Howe | |
| Wiltshire (seat 2/2) | Robert Hyde | |
| Winchelsea (seat 1/2) | Robert Bristow | |
| Winchelsea (seat 2/2) | George Bubb | |
| Winchester (seat 1/2) | George Brydges | |
| Winchester (seat 2/2) | Lord William Powlett | |
| Windsor | see New Windsor | ... |
| Woodstock | see New Woodstock | ... |
| Wootton Bassett (seat 1/2) | Sir James Long | |
| Wootton Bassett (seat 2/2) | William Northey | |
| Worcester (seat 1/2) | Thomas Wylde | |
| Worcester (seat 2/2) | Samuel Swift - died Replaced by Samuel Sandys 1718 |
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| Worcestershire (seat 1/2) | Sir John Pakington | |
| Worcestershire (seat 2/2) | Thomas Vernon - died Replaced by Sir Thomas Lyttelton 1721 |
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| Wycombe | see Chipping Wycombe | ... |
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| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 1/2) | Sir Theodore Janssen - expelled (Director of the South Sea Company) Replaced by William Plumer 1721 |
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| Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (seat 2/2) | Anthony Morgan | |
| Yarmouth (Norfolk) | see Great Yarmouth | ... |
| York (seat 1/2) | Sir William Robinson | |
| York (seat 2/2) | Tobias Jenkins | |
| Yorkshire (seat 1/2) | The 2nd Viscount Downe | |
| Yorkshire (seat 2/2) | Sir Arthur Kaye, Bt | |
By-elections
- List of Great Britain by-elections (1715–34)
See also
- 1715 British general election
- List of parliaments of Great Britain
- Unreformed House of Commons
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